If you want to know what we value in a culture, ask this question: What do we insist be done properly? That answer will reveal what a culture truly values.
I just watched the preachers of the football religion discuss as length the minutia of football rules and the need to assure they are followed perfectly even it means hiring more officials, having more instant replay, and even creating a centralized mecca of all things football which can be reached anytime for a final ruling.
But when it comes to Church and the teaching of the faith, who cares. Everybody can do what is right in their eyes. No instant replay of one’s life conducted by a pastor in private confession is needed. A church’s creed and confession to guard us from stepping out of bounds is rejected outright. Centralized power is thought of with great fear and trepidation.
I like football. But I am growing weary of the way it is idolized. I am becoming more and more ambivalent towards it. It is a game, not a God.
